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Listen: The Last Human Job author @allisonpugh.bsky.social speaks with @emmavigeland.bsky.social for @majorityreport.bsky.social about AI's economy of alienation: majorityreportradio.com/2025/02/06/2...
February 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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"Post it on your social media." Thank you, Mr. Acosta.
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
January 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Please watch all of the segments.
January 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for health secretary, doesn’t hold fringe views just on vaccines. We fact-checked five recent statements.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/h...
Kennedy, in His Own Words: Flu, Diabetes, Autism and More (Gift Article)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for health secretary, doesn’t just hold fringe views on vaccines. We fact-checked five recent statements.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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My latest for The Nation.
Trump Is Trying to Destroy Public Health In America: the administration has ground crucial scientific activity to a halt. It’s an act of national suicide.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Trump Is Trying to Destroy Public Health In America
The administration has ground crucial scientific activity to a halt. It's an act of national suicide.
www.thenation.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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UPDATE: The county brought in helicopters and several battalions of firefighters, including incarcerated firefighters, to protect the nearly 5,000 incarcerated people and staff of the jail until the fire was under control.

Putting pressure on public officials works.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Jan 23
URGENT: The LA Sheriff's Department and Board of Supervisors has yet to evacuate at least 4,700 people who are incarcerated just 5 miles from a wild fire that broke out hours ago.

The board must act NOW to save the lives of the people who are imprisoned.
Wildfire evacuation zone grows, unclear if 5,000-person jail complex will evacuate
The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly 5 miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The sheriff's department has struggled with a shortage of buses to transport inmates.
www.latimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Harlow's monkeys seem apposite here (if maybe a bit extreme...)
We're in @TheGuardian.com today! So glad to be able to make an argument for protecting human connection, just one week after the UK PM rhapsodized about the power of AI in teaching and other humane service. Not everything is a nail, as we pick up these new hammers!
I set out to study which jobs should be done by AI – and found a very human answer | Allison Pugh
Much of the power of work such as counselling lies in a relationship where we properly see each other. And tech just can’t do that, says sociology professor Allison Pugh
buff.ly
January 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Today and every day.

Repost if you agree! 🦋
January 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Senator @warren.senate.gov has sent RFK Jr a letter with 175 questions for him in advance of his confirmation hearing at the Senate Finance Committee (on which she sits)

www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.warren.senate.gov
January 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Senator: Will you defend the right to bear arms?

Bondi: I will study the Second Amendment.

Never would be tolerated. The 14th Amendment is the only one the right wing treats as optional.
Padilla: Will you defend birthright citizenship as the law of the land?

Bondi: I will study birthright citizenship

Padilla: You're asking to be considered for Attorney General and you still need to study the 14th Amendment of the Constitution?
January 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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BREAKING: The House passed a bill requiring the government to detain immigrants if they’ve ever been arrested or charged for theft, even if they've never been convicted.

This could put thousands of people in detention without due process all while lining the pockets of private prisons.
January 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM